SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 4 October 1916, Page 8

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

! Invitations have 'been issued by Bishop ; and Mrs- Averill for an At Home, to; meet the visiting clergy and synodsmen, at Bishopsconrt on October 14. Miss MeLeHan, who has been on a trip : •to Melbourne and Sydney, is spending a few days in Auckland before laturning, to "Wellington, and is staxim: ' at the Grand. A charming "At Home" was held at Sirs. Warm's, Dexter Avenue, in aid of the fund for a children's hospital to be erected in memory of fallen soldiers, •when there -was a good attendance oi anembers of the Domini on P.oa d Croquet Clnb aTirl friends. The proceeds from donations of cake, fortune-telling, etc., realised the Einn of seven pounds. ■ The Hon. Mr. Frear and Mrs. Frear, accompanied by Miss Atherton, after a comprehensive tour of Zealand, have left for Honolulu. MJre. and Miss Peacock, are at present in Auckland on a visit from Tuakau, and are" staying "with friends in Bemuera. ilrs. John Burns, together -with Mrs. M. Lennox and Miss T. Kirkwood, have left by the "Union liner for a pleasure trip, to Honolulu. Sir Eobert "Walker and Xiady "Walker, left yesterday on a visit to Suva. Mte. Wrightonson, oi Puketutn, is on a visit to Auckland, and staying rat] Cargen- i Mr. and Mrs. Friend, after a lengthy! trip to Sydney, have returned to Auck-i laad, and taken up apartments at thei Grand. "Miss and Mrs. Pike, who have been: visiting Auckland for the last four; months and staying at the Grand, havej steturned to Wellington. 31r. and jEss Whitcombe. of Christchurch, are on a visit to Auckland, and residing at the Grand for a few days eefore going for a trip to the Bay of Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Parker arrived bj the Niagara. They intend to spend som» time in Wellington, and are staying for . ajetr days at the Grand before proceeding south. Among the visitors who arrived by the lonic were Mrs. and Mis= Felkin, together with Dr. Felkin, of London, who intends to settle dovrn in Havelock North. _ Mrs. Hutton aeeo.mpanied her husband, "lieutenant-Colonel Hutton. to Sew Zealand by the Willochra. Mrs- Hutton is etaylng in Christchurch with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. G. Ehodes. llrs. Spragg, -accompanied by her Bister, Miss Leyland, returned to Auckland oa Monday. Miss Maria ; Bauchop, of Port Chal3)KTs, and sister of the late Colonel A. Barn-bop, Y.C., lias arrived in London on it visit irom Toronto, Canada. 3lr. and Mrs. Godfrey Pharazyn, of .3lre*vie's Bay, have arrived safely in Sigland, have taken a- house.for a few months at Highcliff, Lyme Eegis, Dorset. Ite. Hacker, the well-known medical snaa, who represents Christchnfch la Parliament, and whose name was J"' ro * jninenily-before the public over the sicknees at'Trentham, has left on a-.visit, to Canada, and Trill probably go on to England. He is accompanied ly ;MW'

Mr.-and Mrs. Perrett, of Wellington, are on a holiday visit to Auckland, and are staying at Cargen. A very entertaining evening "was spent by the mothers and friends of the children attending the Campbell Free Kindergarten on Friday evening. The concert had been organised by the mothers of the babies. Tinder the direction of Mrs.' Lavis, and consisted of action songs-'by the little ones, together with songs and recitations t>y>relatives and friends. Mrs. Banme presided."\Dpring an interval MtsTalbot, on behalf of the ladies' committee, thanked the mothers for their efforts, and said how encouraging it was to the •committee to find their efforts appreciated and such interest taken by tie mothers of the children. For one of the action songs the children were dressed as dollies, and had a beautiful cradle upon the stage, which had been woven purposely by a friend for this purpose, and -which "was occupied by a hig dolL Amongst the ladies of the committee present were Lady I/oekhart, Mrs. Mllsom, Mrs. Coleman, and Mrs. Louis 3£yers. At the close of the entertainment Mass Fendall moved a very hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. Baume for presiding. Captain Gilbert V. Bogle -<Dr.), of Wellington, whose name appears amongst the list of killed on the Sornme, married Miss Margaret Fell, who is the second daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Fell, TVeHmgton,and granddaughter of Judge Richmond. Captain Bogle is survived by a daughter, only a few months old. •Captain Terence Desmond, son. of tie Governor of Papua, is shortly to marry Miss PMllippa Chevalier Kitchener, niece of the late Earl Kitchener. The wedding takes place in London in a few months' time. Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly, of Gilberton. South Australia, who 'a few days age reached her 90th year, 'has eight grand 1 eons at the war, and one of her granddaushters is a military nurse in Egypt The Women's Social- and. Political Union held a -women's war procession in London, when the women muni tion workers were everybody's favourites. "Are we downhearted?" they called to the crowd, and the soldiers in i< gave them a hearty "Xo. 1, "Do we like overtime?"' left unanswered, produced much laughter, but the crowd perhaps did not realise that these women hac most of them come fresh from the nigbi shifts and a long distance from London doing without their sleep to walk in tl» procession. Xot many of the outsids rublic joined in the procession; thos« that did were to be found mainly behind the banners demanding firmer measures, with aliens. j The unmarried mother in Russia receives more consideration than in either France or England. In 1902 a law was pacsed by •whici the father of an illegitimate child must give the mother money to bring up the child according,- to his means and to Tier position. If the mother has the care of the child the father must help also, and his responsibility does not tnd till the child is of age. The unmar-j ried mother does not need_to_ beg for help from her childV father: she claims, .it as a right. And if the parents subsequently marry, -the child becomes legi'timatel In cases of child murder, with a curious sense of pity, allowance i≤ made for a woman who kills an ille/nti-, ioate' or deformed child, — f '~ - ; —: '--'■'■'■